Try red or another color bright enough to show up
against the black. Use a permanent, felt tip marker,
not the washable kind which comes off on people's
fingers as they handle the cassettes.

Are these audio or video tapes?

If video tapes there is a correct way to store them on
the shelves which helps minimize tape stretching --
I can never remember if it's upright as they are
stored on shelves in video stores, etc.or laying flat
on the shelf but I'm fairly certain it's the latter. 
That way you can stack them one on top of the other to
save shelf space.

Cassette tapes are a less-than-desirable storage
medium, though, for a number of reasons.
 

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI
--- Kay Palmateer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I need some advice about storing casette tapes.
>    
>   Many of them don't have their original styrene box
> but are stored inside archival cardboard boxes.  Do
> I need to put the tapes into the individual boxes? 
> Is polystyrene okay or do I need to buy
> polypropylene boxes?
>    
>   The original sticky labels are falling off en
> masse.  I can write on the white cassettes; how can
> I mark the black cassettes?
>    
>   Thanks,
>    
>   Kay
> 
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